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The books, broadcasts, films, podcasts and reporting that shaped what the public knows. 342 events, newest first.
Media15 Mar 2021
Former New York Times reporter Ralph Blumenthal published the first biography of Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, who studied people reporting alien abductions. The book drew mixed reviews, including criticism that it was uncritical of Mack's conclusions.
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Media27 Jan 2021
Syfy premiered Resident Alien, adapted by Chris Sheridan from a Dark Horse comic, starring Alan Tudyk as an alien who crash-lands near the small Colorado town of Patience and poses as a local doctor while hiding a mission to wipe out humanity.
Photo: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0
Media26 Jan 2021
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb's book argued that the interstellar object 'Oumuamua could be an artifact of another civilization. Reviewers called it provocative, but many scientists were unconvinced, noting the object can no longer be observed to test the idea.
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Media11 Jan 2021
French pay channel Canal+ began airing OVNI(s), a period comedy created by Clemence Dargent and Martin Douaire. Set in the 1970s, it follows a CNES rocket engineer reassigned to run GEPAN, the real French space agency office that studied UFO reports.
Media5 Jan 2021
History launched The Proof Is Out There, hosted by journalist Tony Harris, in which a team of experts examines viral videos, photos and audio of UFOs and other claimed phenomena. The network said each item is analyzed to judge whether it is authentic or fabricated.
Media18 Nov 2020
A Utah Department of Public Safety helicopter crew counting bighorn sheep spotted a 10 to 12 foot stainless-steel monolith in a remote southeastern Utah canyon. Officials said it was likely an unauthorized art installation and, as one trooper put it, not from another world.
Photo: Patrick A. Mackie; cropped by Chainwit, CC BY-SA 4.0
Media13 Nov 2020
Apple TV+ released Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds, a documentary directed by Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer on how shooting stars, meteorites and impacts have shaped human imagination and science.
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Media6 Oct 2020
James Fox's documentary, narrated by Peter Coyote, surveyed UFO cases since the 1940s alongside the newly released Navy videos. It featured former Senate leader Harry Reid, ex-New Mexico governor Bill Richardson and researcher Jacques Vallee. It was released for digital download.
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Media8 Sep 2020
Retired Navy Cmdr. David Fravor gave a nearly four-hour interview on the Lex Fridman Podcast, retelling his 2004 encounter with a white 'Tic Tac' object off California and discussing fighter flying and UFO reports. The episode added to his widely viewed first-hand accounts.
Photo: U.S. House Committee On Oversight and Accountability, Public domain
Media23 Jul 2020
The New York Times reported that Pentagon UFO work had continued inside the Office of Naval Intelligence as the UAP Task Force and that a Senate report expected periodic public findings. Consultant Eric Davis said he had briefed officials on 'off-world vehicles'; none has been publicly verified.
Photo: U.S. Navy, Public domain
Media11 Jul 2020
History began the second season of Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation. Former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo and former defense official Chris Mellon examined military and civilian sightings and argued the objects warrant serious government study.
Photo: Max Moszkowicz, CC BY 3.0
Media1 Jul 2020
Netflix's reboot of 'Unsolved Mysteries' launched with six episodes, one of them 'Berkshires UFO', about a reported sighting in western Massachusetts. The volume quickly reached Netflix top-ten lists in several countries.
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Media29 May 2020
Andrew Patterson's debut The Vast of Night went to Amazon Prime Video instead of theaters. Set in a late-1950s New Mexico town, it follows a switchboard operator and a radio DJ who trace a strange audio signal. It had won an audience award at Slamdance.
Media31 Mar 2020
History premiered The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, a series following a team funded by owner Brandon Fugal, including astrophysicist Travis Taylor, as it investigates reported phenomena at the Utah ranch. It has continued for several seasons.
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Media5 Oct 2019
Retired Navy commander David Fravor recounted his 2004 encounter with the 'Tic Tac' object off California in a long interview on The Joe Rogan Experience episode 1361, with filmmaker Jeremy Corbell.
Photo: U.S. House Committee On Oversight and Accountability, Public domain
Media25 Sep 2019
Kevin Knuth, Robert Powell and Peter Reali published a peer-reviewed paper estimating accelerations implied by witness and sensor accounts, including the 2004 Nimitz case, from roughly 70 g to over 5,000 g. Critics argued some figures rested on doubtful readings of the data.
Photo: United States Navy, Public domain
Media6 Sep 2019
Gallup reported that 68 percent of U.S. adults believed the government knew more about UFOs than it was saying, close to its 1996 result. Only 33 percent thought some UFO sightings had been alien spacecraft, and 16 percent said they had personally seen something they believed was a UFO.
Media19 Jul 2019
History launched The UnXplained, a nonfiction series on unexplained mysteries hosted by William Shatner and produced by Kevin Burns of Ancient Aliens. It joined a Friday block that included Unidentified and Project Blue Book.
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Media20 Jun 2019
Bob Lazar and filmmaker Jeremy Corbell appeared on episode 1315 of The Joe Rogan Experience, where Lazar repeated his claim to have worked on alien craft at a site near Area 51. His account and stated background have never been independently verified.
Media31 May 2019
History premiered a six-part series following Luis Elizondo, Tom DeLonge's To The Stars Academy and former Pentagon official Chris Mellon. It featured Navy pilot David Fravor describing his 2004 encounter and other accounts tied to the Navy cases.
Photo: Max Moszkowicz, CC BY 3.0
